Today I'd like to share with an article I wrote for AESSRA magazine, Sensitivity Matters. I'm eternally grateful to AESSRA for continuing to publish my work as it honestly keeps my potty mouth in check... while also helping prevent my mind forming cobwebs from lack of use. And it's always helpful to be of help to others when we are able. But first, some personal news though: … [Read more...] about Going to University with MCS [or symptoms of chemical sensitivity]
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Steps to becoming scent-free: From Breakspear Hospital
Thank you Breakspear Medical, and Patients Of great interest are the treatments coming out of Breakspear Medical Hospital in the UK. Yes, it's private, and many cannot afford to go there. But for those who can, well, they are paving the way for people with any or all of the 6 overlapping medical conditions that fall into the category of Environmental Illness: MCS (Multiple … [Read more...] about Steps to becoming scent-free: From Breakspear Hospital
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect: Finding Sanctuary in Butterfly Town, USA, By Jennifer Lunden was a piece of creative nonfiction that I chose to present to my Creative Nonfiction class early in 2014, during the last year of my Diploma at Victoria University (VU). My Creative Nonfiction teacher, the wonderful Michelle Fincke, read the following analysis of 'The Butterfly Effect' out … [Read more...] about The Butterfly Effect
Apiary: The Power Issue: by incarcerated authors of PA
New from Issuu: The best new local writing—poetry, prose, and nonfiction—from Philadelphia. In collaboration with prison reform advocacy group Decarcerate PA, this issue features writing by incarcerated authors in Pennsylvania. http://issuu.com/apiarymagazine/docs/apiary_7_for_reading_online?e=6211326/12239146 … [Read more...] about Apiary: The Power Issue: by incarcerated authors of PA
The Day I Fell in Love… with a font
One day in June, 2014: It was a rainy, damp day. Mould spores were antagonising my sinuses; and as I ruminated on the pain throbbing it's three month long beat: boom, da boom, boom, along the bridge of my nose, piercing its un-relentless way into the bones of my face, forehead and cheekbones, I pulled a snotty piece of cotton wool from my left nostril, and, tugging a clean … [Read more...] about The Day I Fell in Love… with a font